ICP Waters TF meeting 2025 – presentations

Welcome and reports

• Introduction – ICP IM Germany (Thomas Scheuschner, CCE)
• The German Environment Agency (Marcel Langner, Leader of Air Quality Department)
• Introduction to the Convention and revision of the protocol (Till Spranger, Working Group on Strategy and Review)
• Latest news from Working group on Effects (Jesper Bak, Chair WGE)
• ICP Forests Progress report (Kai Schwärzel, Germany)
• ICP Vegetation Updates and Achievements 2024 (Felicity Hayes, UK)
• Current issues ICP IM (Chair/Head of PC ICP IM)
• Current issues ICP Waters (Chair ICP Waters)

Reports of activities under the Convention in Germany

• Current activities of the CCE of the ICP Modelling and Mapping: (Markus Geupel, CCE)
• News from the IM monitoring site “Forellenbach” (Bavarian forest): Trends in Climate change, water chemistry and air quality (Angelika Kölbl, Germany)
• Current research at the ICP Integrated Monitoring (ICP IM) site Neuglobsow (Inken Krüger, Germany)
• Acidification monitoring in German waters – long-term data of aquatic communities to indicate environmental changes (Jens Arle, German Environment Agency)

Thematic sessions

Biological recovery and biodiversity

• Has nitrogen deposition driven forest plants westwards? (Thomas Dirnböck, Austria)
• Biological recovery to acidification in rivers and lakes: trends, thresholds, step changes (Shuntaro Koizumi, ICP Waters)
• Leaf area index – potentials in the context of ICP IM (Line Grottian, Germany)
• Vegetation dynamics at the Swedish IM sites (Ulf Grandin, Sweden)

Acidification

• Paleolimnological study on responses of Benthic Carbon Flows in Scandinavian Lakes to Atmospheric S and N Deposition (Jens Fölster, Sweden)
• Al speciation in Bohemian Forest lakes – delayed recovery by bark beetle infestation (Jakub Hruška, Czechia)
• Modelling recovery in Norwegian lakes for the revision of the Gothenburg Protocol (Heleen De Wit, Norway)

NEC Directive /EECCA

• Long-term ecological monitoring of air quality and its effects on the Spanish National Parks network (Manual Toro, Spain)
• Review of the surface water monitoring program in Republic of Moldova, including local contamination sources (Oleg Bogdevici, Moldova)

Monitoring

• Update on IM extended sites (Lieke Vlaar, The Netherlands)
• Updated ICP Waters Manual (Cathrine Brecke Gundersen, Norway)
• ICP Waters Chemical Intercomparison (Tina Bryntesen, Norway)
• Carbon measurements on an ICP IM forest site, Neuglobsow (Marie Romer, Germany)
• Carbon and dead wood at Aneboda IM site (James Weldon, Sweden)

Cofounding Factors

• Brightening browning waters: antagonistic effects of cleaner air on sub-surface irradiance (Don Monteith, UK)

Joint Issues for Task Force Meetings

• Open Data Policy (James Weldon, Sweden)
• Revision of Gothenburg Protocol, ex-post analysis (Heleen De Wit, Norway)

Seperate Task Force meeting

• Status, ongoing activities and workplan (Heleen De Wit & Kari Austnes, Norway)